{"id":30076,"date":"2019-01-22T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30076"},"modified":"2019-01-22T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T03:22:25","slug":"a-two-child-policy-in-overpopulated-india-it-wont-work-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30076","title":{"rendered":"A two-child policy in overpopulated India? It won&#8217;t work, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Some politicians in India are clamoring for what they believe to be a quick fix to the country&#8217;s population problem: a two-child policy for Indian citizens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">As activists and experts scramble to educate the public on the need for contraception and family planning, these politicians want to limit each family to have just two children.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Today, India&#8217;s population stands at 1.31 billion people, second only to China. Experts estimate India will surpass China in just a few years, a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/popclock\/\" target=\"_blank\">ccording to the United States Census Bureau<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Some politicians in India are clamoring for what they believe to be a quick fix to the country&#8217;s population problem: a two-child policy for Indian citizens.As activists and experts scramble to educate the public on the need for contraception and family planning, these politicians want to limit each family to have just two children.Today, India&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}